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Patrick Kapty
Patrick Kapty
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6 months ago
an INCREDIBLE and very large vintage 1970s handmade sterling silver and lapis lazuli modernist cocktail ring designed by Pekka Piekainen for the firm of Auran Kultaseppa in Finland. A spectacular statement ring that is overall about the size of an egg! Really outstanding design, simple but impressive! Here's a biography of the artist that I found online: Pekka Piekainen (1945 – 2004) was a leading Finnish silver jewelry and silver designer. His parents owned a jewelry and watch store in Helsinki and he first learned his skills at his father's workshop. In the 1960's he began his career working with Kaunis Koru. He then moved on to Auran Kultaseppa (the second oldest silver factory in Finland), where he worked from 1971 to 1989, as head designer and artistic director. In the early nineties he started own business named PlatinOro. Piekainen's pieces exhibited a smooth, clean, sleek, timeless style with geometric shapes and lines. He produced many items including bracelets, rings, earrings, silverware and bracelet watches. He also contributed to the watch designs of Omega, Tissot, and Lanco, and was the first Finnish designer employed by Tiffany in NYC. In 1979 Piekainen was awarded the state design prize, and in 2002 he was recognised as a Finnish pioneer by the Finnish Goldsmith Association for the first series of design watches made for large scale production. A gorgeous example of lapis lazuli cut as a cabochon, and perched atop a massive sterling silver setting. The ring is 1-3/4" from top to bottom! It measures 1-1/8" diameter at top, rises just over 1" above the finger, size 9.75- 10 US! It weighs a substantial 22.5 grams total. Fully marked with the Auran Kultaseppa mark, at which Piekainen was the head designer at the time, along with the Finnish National mark for sterling silver, also "925", the mark for the city of Turku, Finland, and last mark is the date letter "U7" for 1974. Unmistakeably his work! In excellent vintage condition

an INCREDIBLE and very large vintage 1970s handmade sterling silver and lapis lazuli modernist cocktail ring designed by Pekka Piekainen for the firm of Auran Kultaseppa in Finland. A spectacular statement ring that is overall about the size of an egg! Really outstanding design, simple but impressive! Here's a biography of the artist that I found online: Pekka Piekainen (1945 – 2004) was a leading Finnish silver jewelry and silver designer. His parents owned a jewelry and watch store in Helsinki and he first learned his skills at his father's workshop. In the 1960's he began his career working with Kaunis Koru. He then moved on to Auran Kultaseppa (the second oldest silver factory in Finland), where he worked from 1971 to 1989, as head designer and artistic director. In the early nineties he started own business named PlatinOro. Piekainen's pieces exhibited a smooth, clean, sleek, timeless style with geometric shapes and lines. He produced many items including bracelets, rings, earrings, silverware and bracelet watches. He also contributed to the watch designs of Omega, Tissot, and Lanco, and was the first Finnish designer employed by Tiffany in NYC. In 1979 Piekainen was awarded the state design prize, and in 2002 he was recognised as a Finnish pioneer by the Finnish Goldsmith Association for the first series of design watches made for large scale production. A gorgeous example of lapis lazuli cut as a cabochon, and perched atop a massive sterling silver setting. The ring is 1-3/4" from top to bottom! It measures 1-1/8" diameter at top, rises just over 1" above the finger, size 9.75- 10 US! It weighs a substantial 22.5 grams total. Fully marked with the Auran Kultaseppa mark, at which Piekainen was the head designer at the time, along with the Finnish National mark for sterling silver, also "925", the mark for the city of Turku, Finland, and last mark is the date letter "U7" for 1974. Unmistakeably his work! In excellent vintage condition

A gargantuan sterling and lapis ring by Pekka Piekainen for Auran Kultaseppa Finland circa 1974 - the size of a large egg - fits up to a size 10 US!

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